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We are looking forward to #IbrahimMahama's solo show #Fragments@whitecube opening 28 February. For this exhibition, his first solo presentation in the UK, Mahama has created a new series of works, including Non-Orientable Nkansa (2016) a monumental sculpture formed from stained wooden fragments. The title of the exhibition is taken from the book of the same name by the renowned Ghanaian author #AyiKweiArmah. Published in 1970, the novel explores the relationship between the individual and society within the newly independent #Ghana.

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"Did you remember to tell your listeners of what time, what age you rushed so fast to speak? Or did you leave the listener floundering in endless time, abandoned to suppose your story belonged to any confusing age? Is it a story of yesterday, or is it of last year? Is it from the time of the poet Nyankoman Dua, seven centuries ago? Or did it take place ten centuries ago, when Ghana was not just a memory, and the eloquent ones before you still sang praises to the spirit holding our people together? Is it of that marvellous black time before the desert was turned desert, thirty centuries and more ago? Or have you let the listener know the truth: that this story now is not so old - just over a century old?"

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TFW the song in your playlist matches the emotion of the heart break poetry you are reading. The poem is called 'Aftermath' and is written by Ghanaian poet Ayi Kwei Armah. It talks about the heavy pain of the aftermath of love. The song is a Tamil song from a movie Maryaan where the guy is singing about the lover he cannot be with. This combination totally got the sappy hearted me. #messages#poemsfromghana#aftermath#ayikweiarmah#heartbreak#tamilsongs#maryaan#arrehman

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Being based in Houston, and currently under a state of emergency, we will not be airing or posting any new content this week into next. We are making sure that we are safe. They say evacuate but it is contradictory info because highways are un-drivable, so basically we are stuck. As of now we have electricity and food but they say that a river near where we are located may crest and flood, and damage levies where we are located. We hope for the best. We thank everyone who supports us, and we want people to always put theory with practice to effect change. Nobody can't tell us this isn't because of #climatechange !!! Well let me get off here and be cool, good time to read some #ngugiwathiongo and #ayikweiarmahPeace!!! #conscientization101#houstonflooding#houstonisunderwater#houstonisflooded#hurricaneharvey

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The Beautyful Ones Are not Yet Born (1968), describes the life of an unnamed rail worker who is pressured by his family and fellow workers to accept bribes and involve himself in corrupt activities in order to provide his family with material goods. The other workers who accept bribes are able to live a prosperous life, while he and his family live from pay check to pay check as a result of his honesty. The unnamed protagonist has failed professionally because he has been too soft and the only heroes in the society—that is, the only ones who succeed—are those who no longer feel moral or emotional hypocrisy. In The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah attempts to capture the seemingly endless spiral of corruption, moral decadence and spiritual death in post-colonial Ghana. | #TheBeautyfulOnesAreNotYetBorn#AyiKweiArmah#AFREADs#AfricanLit#AfricanLiterature